I honestly do not understand gaijins insistance on nerfing the stormer at every single chance they get. The last patch felt especially bad. The missiles are practically unuseable outside of the auto track in the ipad screen and the radar cant hold a lock to save its life. It also baffles me as to why gaijin removed the ovepressure from the missiles yet still insist on keeping them explosive instead of solid projectiles. I am also sure someone else has probably done the calculations on how much the missiles should actually pen instead of the 30mm that they currently do ingame
Yeah they needlessly made the lock susceptible to flares/chaff when it should be immune. But I think this affects all SACLOS systems now? I’m not too sure.
It happens alot in other IRST vehicles to me.
my conspiracy is that they dont add it cause it would be a decently effective smiter of light vehicles.
A tank that can go hull down and be basically immune to anything but he thats able to deal with most tanks it would face? How could they ever add such a thing.
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lmao and it wouldnt even be immune you can hit the missiles
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You got the Falcon radar to lock something??
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Stormer HVM can no longer take out combat drones now either. The lock just jitters so much that its impossible to aim accurately and the randomised flight paths of the missiels mean that hitting such a narrow target is actually impossible
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Always been hard, but now it truly is impossible to hit yes. Its more to do with the inconstant scatter of the hittiles which go everywhere but where your cursor goes.
Its now impossible to use without using the radar screen and auto track, even then the auto track isnt great and causes you to miss against helis most of the time.
Tells you alot when i no longer play it as much when it got given its radar screen we’ve been wanting for so long because they made it basically worthless at the same time, usual gaijin shinanigans.
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Also now terrible against other SPAA and light vehicles took me 3 shots to kill a Pantsir SV!
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Now I’ve noticed it’s even worse, sometimes when using radar screen it just… doesn’t aim at the locked target anymore? So the missile just flies straight, or it tries to lead the target, but in completely the wrong direction or amount, so it misses completely… Plus we still need it to lead the target properly at close range, like it does IRL, even the MANPADS version gives you a lead!!
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I find it pretty funny/sad that the rapier is now a better AA than the HVM despite there being almost a full BR difference.
- The IR/optical radar is absolutely useless since it shows up every bit of chaff, every flare, every drone, every munition in the air and you can’t filter anything out
- The IR/optical radar barely functions with even the thinnest cloud cover
- The IRST lock is extremely prone to dropping randomly
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It’s like you can notch IRST systems they are treated like Radar
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That sounds just dumb enough to be plausible.
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Yeah. If they just fixed the Rapiers warhead issues. I would solidly place it as far superior to the Stormer HVM at everything, even taking out helis.
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Ill be honest most of my rapier shots are effective, but yeah definetly too weak you can tell
It’ll work fine, until I have a light heli take 4 missiles and barely scratch the paint
so, no luck with the stormer getting Martlet anytime soon then? They did say that using it on wildcat would be a trial for if they give it to Stormer or not, AFAIK its not great on wildcat, so I cant wait to see the reasoning now.
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Rapier was retired for Sky Sabre in 2021, not Starstreak, Starstreak was designed for short range engagement mobile AD (particularly for fleeting targets eg pop up heli attacks), Rapier was designed to replace the Bofors 40/L70 and the Thunderbird, for SHORAD and MRAD, in a fixed position (tracked rapier was only in service for around 10 years). Rapier was always more for slightly longer range defense
What Rapier warhead issues? I think it does fine, considering the low warhead mass.
Absolutely! It’s actually my favorite SAM, especially because of it’s high velocity. Sure, sometime effect on target sometimes is iffy, but even then, it does it’s job well.
It produces only a small amount of spall. Compare it’s damage to something like the RB-70 Mk2 and it’s actually kinda insane
RB-70
Rapier
Only 22g smaller warhead to the RB-70
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